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  • Little_mousetoScience Memes@mander.xyzProve your humanity.
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    8 days ago

    The standard way to streak a plate involves creating a resevoir of the sample you are studying, then using a sterile tool to streak through that at a steep angle. Then you streak through the first streak with another sterile tool, and so on and so forth.

    As you streak through lines, the amount of bacteria pulled along is reduced until you are able to isolate individual colonies.













  • It’s worse than that though. The parking lot frog adds a huge, but not impossible, score to your team if you catch it AND it instantly ends the game.

    So even if one team is absolutely crushing the other, it’s not actually going to even things out unless it is in a very specific range of uneven matches.

    Being so overwhelmingly outclassed makes a neat sort of metagame about preventing the parking lot frog from being caught. Though the frog is apparently hard enough to catch even once that defending it is sort of besides the point. Even if the frog hunt suddenly has a second dynamic, it’s still taking place pretty much completely outside of the view of the audience.